Chapter 110: Strange City
"Rare and weird!" Xiao Jin happily swallowed almost half of the remaining mice, and only then belatedly responded to Bai Lu.
Bai Lu also ignored the golden lump that had eaten and was lazily lying on his stomach, and happily mined the flame stone. Bai Lu looked back and forth a few times, only the area where the Soul Eater Mouse was in had these pink crystals, and the other passages were just gray limestone, it seemed that if you want to store more flame stones, you have to find the nest of the Spirit Eater Mouse, if you find a more spiritual one to sign a contract, maybe it will be of great use. Bai Lu thought that this Soul Eater Rat must have its own method of finding flame stones, otherwise their nest would have just been built in these passages with flame stones.
It took a whole day, and even the passage was dug into a small cave by Bai Lu, and Bai Lu cleaned up the flame stones that could be found here.
"Eh, Xiao Jin, let's continue to find other Spirit Eaters!" Bai Lu's face flashed with excitement.
Xiao Jin nodded indispensably, anyway, there was nothing to do with it, Bai Lu alone was enough.
In the next few days, Bai Lu rode a skateboard and ransacked the nearby Soul Eater Rat Lair, and the harvest was really a lot, the flame mountain stones were the size of fingernails, and they were filled with two large wooden boxes. Most of them are pale red and pink crystals, the flames emitted by the crystals of this color are orange-yellow, which is equivalent to the power of mortal fire, and a considerable part of them are crimson crystals, and the flames that are distributed are blue, and the power is equivalent to the fireball technique issued by the monks of the Qi refining period. There are also a relatively small number of them, only a few dozen of them are very positive red at the head of the water, and the flames emitted are cyan, this cyan flame, Bai Lu felt it, and it was almost as powerful as the flames used in his foundation building period.
In addition to these colors, Bai Lu also picked up a fist-sized crimson crystal, Bai Lu lost some spiritual power into it, but there was no reaction, feeling the pure fire aura inside, Bai Lu didn't dare to try again, obviously the flame power in this thing is higher than the big red crystal, if it is similar to the power of the Jindan period Danhuo, with Bai Lu's current defensive ability is unstoppable, he will turn into ashes, Bai Lu carefully stored this flame stone separately, I feel that the value of this stone is a little higher, if I meet a cultivator in this world, Mei Ruoxi will forget it, judging from her calculation of her own situation, it is still not possible.
Bai Lu touched the fluffy little mouse on his hand, this mouse was found in the cave where the crimson crystal was found, I don't know why the little one was not drowned by Bai Lu's poison beads and water, but instead squeaked at Bai Lu. Fortunately, this little guy has no teeth and looks cuter than other soul eaters, so Bai Lu reluctantly signed the contract.
Of course, one of the main reasons is that Xiao Jin said that this kind of little mouse is actually mutated, Bai Lu also looked at it carefully after signing the contract, this little soul eater rat actually mutated into a soul eater rat, and there is actually a handful of shiny purple hair in the red hair all over his body, but he doesn't know what skills he has, according to Xiao Jin, with the soul eater rat, he basically doesn't have to be afraid of Mei Ruoxi's kind of ghost, for the soul eater rat, eating the soul body is his way of eating and tonifying.
There are a lot of underground passages, and after Bai Lu ransacked the nest of the Spirit Devouring Rats within a radius of a few miles, he didn't think about going around to find and kill all the people, although monsters like this are naturally hostile to people, but they have to spare people and spare people, and Bai Lu, who has already done his best, thought shamelessly.
There is no direction underground, and Bai Lu does not have a strong sense of direction, but fortunately, with Xiao Zi, it is the guidance of the newly acquired Soul Eater Mouse, for this kind of underground creature, it is their instinct to discern the direction of the underground. After flying for three days, they finally flew out of the intricate underground labyrinth.
"Oh my God, it's been ten days!I feel like I'm going to get moldy!" Bai Lu patted her dusty clothes, looked around, and put Xiao Zi on her shoulder. Xiao Jin straightened his body and stretched: "It's not that you're going to stay in it for so long, who is to blame, this place is too desolate!"
Everywhere you look, on the vast earth, the land is cracked and dusty, and you can't see the slightest greenery, and there is a faint shadow of the city wall in the distance.
"I don't know what kind of place this is!" Bai Lu casually cast a water balloon technique, and a small crystal clear water balloon was generated in the blink of an eye, "There is a lot of water aura here, how can there be no trees growing? It's too strange!" Bai Lu took a sip of water: "It seems that that that this is where we came out!" There was a towering mountain peak in the distance, and thick smoke was billowing out of it.
"It seems that this is still an active volcano!" Bai Lu, who has studied in modern times, naturally knows the situation of the volcano, "It's good that we didn't erupt when we were inside, otherwise if those passages were filled with magma, we would all have died inside." ”
"It's not enough to die inside, don't you have a fairy palace, just hide in it when the time comes. "Xiao Jin doesn't care.
"Anyway, your luck is really not ordinarily good, I'm a little envious of you!" Xiao Jin opened his mung bean eyes, "It seems that you have quite a lot of good things on you, just the things in the Immortal Palace, others will not have them after thousands of years of struggle, and any one of the things in it is enough for the Yuan Infant Monk to go crazy." Not to mention that the infant period is the distraction period, and the tribulation period is coveted by people. ”
"So what, I don't even need it now! It's not bitter haha!" Bai Lu is also helpless, she admits that since she took Xiangling, she has been very lucky, and she has obtained a lot of things, however, it is useless, and you have to find a way to get what you really want to use, if it weren't for this, you wouldn't have eaten rat meat for those flame stones, as a girl eating things like rats, there are still some psychological obstacles, but there is no way, she has to learn refining tools and learn alchemy, and she has no fire spirit root, so she can only use external fire. Although I had heard of a water refining method alchemy or something when I was in Canghai before, could this special method similar to a unique technique be known by my own first-order casual cultivation?
"If you like it, tell me if I can give it to you?"
"Hehe, so I think it's my luck, you see that I have such a lucky partner as you, aren't I lucky!"
"Okay! Let's go and find out where there are, we have to figure out what kind of place this is, although I told my grandmother that I want to go out to practice, but it's not good for too long, after a long time, grandma is so old, she is always worried about me, and it's not good for your health, and the Xue family should have an echo in half a month, so it's not good for them to find out that I'm not on Zhuangzi." ”
"You humans have a lot of things!" Xiao Jin was a little depressed: "I thought I could wave outside for a long time!"
Shielding Xiao Jin's complaints, Bai Lu touched Xiao Zi on his shoulder and fed it a flame stone, fortunately, this soul eater rat is still young, although it has been fed by flame stones, but it is full of one a day. Bai Lu took out the scooter and rushed towards the direction of the city, I don't know how those people modified the scooter, but what is easy to use, but in half an hour, the city wall far away in the sky can already be seen with the naked eye.
Bai Lu didn't meet anyone along the way, and after being able to see the city wall clearly, Bai Lu put away the scooter and used light body techniques to hurry, after all, things that are too unreasonable will always cause trouble. Although it is difficult to bring any harm to Bai Lu with his mortal abilities, Bai Lu does not want to keep his life in the process of dealing with trouble.
Different from the prosperity and cleanliness of Jinling City, the city wall is made of yellow mud, which is only two meters high, and there are two soldiers in rattan armor standing lazily at the gate of the city.
Bai Lu Shi ran in, and the two soldiers only glanced at it roughly, and then dozed off on their own.
Bai Lu shook his head and looked at the situation in the city, which was not optimistic, even the soldiers guarding the city gate were like this, could they still expect the people inside to be better than them.
Sure enough, there was no one walking on the road, most of the shop doors were closed, Bai Lu roughly swept a few with his divine sense, and found that there was a grain store in the whole city alone, an inn and a pharmacy, and the grain store and the inn were full of people in the pharmacy.
Bai Lu slowly walked towards the inn, it seems that something is going on here, otherwise how could it be so abnormal? Although he rarely goes to the mortal world, Bai Lu still reads some history books in modern times, as well as pastime books, TV series or something, thinking that the whole city is only overcrowded with pharmacies, something must be wrong, it can't be a plague. It seems that the plague of ancient times is like this.
After only a few steps, Bai Lu arrived at the door of the inn. The red paint of the inn is old and peeling, and it looks a little bleak. Bai Lu entered, there was only a middle-aged woman with a yellow face and a strange dress sitting at the counter in a daze, Bai Lu knocked on the counter and said, "Sister, I want to stay in the hotel!"
"Huh?" Hearing a clear and pleasant voice, the woman raised her head and looked at Bai Lu blankly, where did this Peugeot girl come from, wearing the clothes of the Central Plains. The middle-aged woman who opened an inn can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, so naturally she has seen the people of the Central Plains.
"Miss, you said you wanted to stay in the hotel?"
"Yes. Bai Lu replied in the affirmative.
"Oh!oh!" the middle-aged woman muttered a few words of Fanbang, but Bai Lu didn't understand it anyway.
Amai's cloudy eyes shone a little, and he took Bai Lu upstairs and said happily: "Dear guests from the Central Plains, this is the best room in our store, I hope you have a happy stay! Great All Allah ah bless you!"
Bai Lu entered the room, which was small but clean and tidy, with brightly colored carpets and tents, and wool blankets on the bed, which looked warm and soft. Now, however, the sun is shining and it is hot.
Bai Lu didn't care, and after a rough look at the room, she focused her attention on the woman who had just gone out happily. Her consciousness followed the woman into the backyard of the inn. It was more dilapidated than the front yard, and the woman walked into a dimly lit room in which a man in his forties and a teenager lay there.
Both of them were skinny and skinny, their eyes wide open, and the exposed skin had dark red festering marks.
"Aland, Allah forbid, there is actually a young lady from the Central Plains who came to the store, looking at her clothes and behavior must be an extraordinary person, Aland hopes that the young lady is a kind person, so maybe we will be saved!"
Bai Lu saw the woman muttering something in the local language, but the divine sense did not have the function of transmitting sounds, Bai Lu only saw some two people lying on the bed who were about to lose their lives, according to the current situation, it was not optimistic. And there are so many people in the city pharmacy, I don't know if they have the same disease. Bai Lu's divine sense radiated out from the small inn, and he checked it from house to house. However, the results were unexpectedly bad.
No wonder the city was so lifeless, in Bai Lu's consciousness, almost every household had one or two critically ill patients lying on the bed, and there were even three or four of them, and some houses were even empty and no one lived in them. Bai Lu was on the west side of the city, where there were many shanties, and she saw the burned and cremated corpses, all of them emaciated and skinny, and the people who carried them were wrapped in their clothes, showing only two eyes, and threw the highly decomposed corpses into the fire.
What a purgatory on earth!
Bai Lu regained her consciousness and prepared to talk to the shopkeeper. There are also two patients in her family, what is the situation in this city, she should also explore carefully, since it is her fate to come here, it is also their fate, although Bai Lu does not understand the medical skills of mortals, but there are many pills in her storage bag to cure mortal diseases, which can always be used.
Downstairs, the middle-aged woman was already on the counter, looking lifeless. Seeing Bai Lu coming down, she hurriedly raised the smile on her face, but no matter how big the smile was, it couldn't dispel the sadness on her face.
Bai Lu walked over and asked, "Eldest sister, I traveled from the Central Plains and passed through your land occasionally, and I want to supply some supplies, but I don't know why the shops in the city are closed?"
Hearing this, the sorrow on Ah Mai's face became even more serious, and he said in stiff Chinese: "Distinguished guest, although I am very happy to have your arrival, there are some things I have to say. A year ago, there was not a single rain here, there was no green grassland, we slaughtered sheep and horses, and lived on the meat of sheep and horses. Those who stayed here were people who were originally wealthy and did not want to leave their homes. It's just that somehow, two months ago, the people in our city were suffering from a very strange disease. The doctors in the city had no way to cure it at all, only one medicine that could prolong their lives, and just like that, half of the people in the city were still dead. Strangely enough, only men can have this disease, but women don't. They say it's Allah's Allah punishment, but we haven't done anything wrong, has Allah really abandoned us?"